Tina L. Jens teaches the fantasy writing courses at Columbia College-Chicago and has a blog about writing that goes live Sunday nights at BlackGate.com. She also runs the monthly Gumbo Fiction Salon reading series. She’s had about 75 short stories published, and her first novel, The Blues Ain’t Nothin’; Tales of the Lonesome Blues Pub was a finalist for the Bram Stoker and International Horror Guild Awards. She has a Bride of Frankenstein novella forthcoming in the anthology Gaslight Ghouls (Chaosium). When not writing or teaching, she’s usually hanging about in blues clubs or haunting New Orleans.